related works
Unfinished Earth : Symphony Nº 3 for large orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 4tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc pf hp str
Clair de lune : for soprano and orchestra / Alphons Diepenbrock; on words by Paul Verlaine
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 3fl(picc) 3ob 2cl cl-b 2fg 2h str
The shadowmaker : four pieces for baritone and orchestra / Rudi van Dijk, text by Gwendolyn MacEwen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 3222 4331 timp 6perc pf str tape
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 3333 4331 timp perc str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans